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Albert Einstein, German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist Product:Canvas diplomat and authorAlbert Einstein, German Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, c1930s. Einstein's (1879 1955) main contribution to science was the theory of relativity, regarded by many as the most important theory in the history of physics. His special (1905) and general (1916) theories of relativity, proved the concept that time does not exist at the same rate for everyone and everything. Special Relativity produced the equation which expresses the